Centenaries are a cause for celebration, proving that tradition and perseverance have overcome adversity. In sport, a century of quadrennial events is a milestone to be solemnly commemorated. In 1992, during the Barcelona Olympic Games, the Suite Olympic Centennial was held to mark the 100th anniversary of the first modern Olympics. This Suite featured fifty plastic works by fifty international artists, showcasing various artistic currents of the time.

History marks the beginning of the Games around 1892, when Baron Pierre de Coubertin announced at a session of the Union of French Athletic Sports Societies the celebration of the first Olympic Games of the modern era (1896), thus re-establishing this sporting event after more than 1,500 years without being held. In 1992, one hundred years after this session that shaped the Games of the First Olympiad, the International Olympic Committee, presided over by Juan Antonio Samaranch, decided to pay tribute to this event in a unique way that was closely related to the visual arts. It was from Barcelona, the Olympic city at the time, that the creation of an artistic piece commemorating the centenary, known as the Olympic Centennial Suite, was coordinated. Many of the artists who made up this union of virtuosos of the arts were great exponents of a very wide range of currents. Their contributions to this collective work of art were crucial to the creation of a piece that was a symbol of fraternity that transcended the annals of art history.